Book 1 of 2019: Death at Intervals by José Saramago . It’s taken me a while to finish reading this book. Saramago’s sentences are as long as paragraphs and his paragraphs stretch into pages. Nevertheless, it was an absolute pleasure to read! It’s satirical and hilarious. . . . “The following day, no one died. This fact, being absolutely contrary to life's rules,provoked enormous and, in the circumstances, perfectly justifiable anxiety in people's minds, for we have only to consider that in the entire forty volumes of universal history there is no mention,not even one exemplary case, of such a phenomenon ever having occurred, for a whole day to go by, with its generous allowance of twenty-four hours, diurnal and nocturnal, matutinal and vespertine, without one death from an illness, a fatal fall, or a successful suicide, not one, not a single one.” . . #josesaramago #bookstagram #readingchallenge2019 #lettersfromdeath #satire https://www.instagram.com/ashvenugopalan/p/Bt86vkMlh0llSsGR1My8E1OfzDDYeE9v7_ePuI0/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=uj3552kw8es9
